Former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. pleaded guilty to charges that he engaged in a scheme to spend $750,000 in campaign funds on personal items. He faces 46 to 57 months in prison and a fine of $10,000 to $100,000. How much jail time will he serve?

locomotive

locomotive

Then let's go back to Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. I do feel sorry for him, his wife, his family, his dad, his mom. Some of the decisions up until they were caught were misguided, no doubt. Who knows when this trainwreck began? It looks like a case of getting found out earlier rather than later. As far as jail time, it'll be determined by someone other than us here at the MDN, and hopefully, it'll be a just decision.

muleskinner

If my house is on fire and I am trapped inside, I will not care if the color of the skin of the firefighter is red, just get me out of my burning house.

Come to think of it, I hardly ever see a firefighter whose skin color is red. Maybe we need to investigate the reasons why instead of bickering about who can take a test. The fire dept discriminates against people with red colored skin. Time to sue there too.

I don't care if the firefighter scored a zero on the test, if they can fight a fire, what does it matter?

All you need is water. If you don't know what water is, and a few here obviously don't know and it shows, then you won't qualify as a firefighter.

How did this go from a congressman spending like a drunken sailor to firefighters who can't pass a test?

Missy1

I am one person, speaking my Opinion. And Yet you think your entitled to put me down. Gaming the system? What is going in and out of your brain? OK I don't even want to know. One person here Bill Garr, my name is Missy1. And I am not retired. Nor am I semi retired.

Missy1

By all means, Please report it. Shut down this site, just because it does not fit within your "thinking" and again please do. By the way Bill Garr. One name, I sign in under it and don't change it. I have a Life. Apparently you don't as you are on all day and every day. I just don't like you attacking people for no apparent reason.

rajiihammr

Oh, I could have predicted the results know this bunch. Someone's always getting away with something. Someone's always getting something they don't deserve. They feel so put upon. So much envy, so much resentment.

rajiihammr

OK Lorrie. You lie by omission. Nearly 300 minorities will be hired by court order. You suggest that the same people who failed the test in '99 and '02 will be hired, they will not. They must get a score of 97 on the revised( insert dumbed down in you mind) test. A federal judge in 1973 - that's almost 40 years! - ruled that the testing was discriminatory and must be changed. (who knows how it discriminates, but it does.) Now it has been changed and most of the first pool of hires will be minorities. (make your blood boil Lorrie? good.) It's called a make good. I can almost hear the NYDAILYNEWS in your post, expand your reading a bit. Where JackAaah? I miss JackAaa(p)h.

TheDiogenist

Lorexxx, the applicants in question are being allowed to retake the exams because a judge "found the FDNY guilty of discrimination after a group of black firefighters and the Vulcan Society successfully challenged the methodology of its entrance exams." The FDNY has fairly solid reputation for actively weeding out minorities from the application process, not just in its examinations but in the actual hiring as well.

Missy1

Bill Garr you did the same thing to me, using all the same words, and accusing that I was this person and that person. Then you lied about me. Now you are upset about racist remarks, but continue to slap the small women around, because you can. Some people take it and some people won't put up with it.

namexxx

animal

I don,t see how telling it like it is, is being a racist, all you have to do is pay attention to what goes on everyday to see that if you are black you get a little extra leeway for fear that you will be called a RACIST!!!

JKniffin

Typical, someone calling us racist. If he was white would you call us racist too?? Racism exist with the one accusing someone of being racist. Quit making it a color issue. If anyone is racist its Jacksons dad. You know the white hating jesse jackson sr

WorriedAmerican

Typical DC politicians with their fingers in the cookie jar! Slap their fingers, sentence them, repeal their sentence, and then they will write a book about it and make millions. Crime does pay in DC. no matter what political stripes you are!